The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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